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Dreaming of Climbing
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To climb a mountain or a ladder and reach the top signified honors, advancement, a petition granted. The steeper the way, the greater the standing gained by it.
To climb and slip, or to be turned back near the summit, warns of an ambition that will cost more than it pays. Check the ground, the old books said, before reaching higher.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Climbing is the work of becoming, the psyche taking its own development seriously one handhold at a time. The summit matters less than the fact that you are willing to go up.
Endless climbing with no arrival can be striving inflated, the ego mistaking altitude for growth. Ask what waits at the bottom that you keep climbing away from.
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